Disk2vhd and VirtualBox woes

technobabble

I have an old Vista PC that had my MS Accounting Program I was using on it. I converted the drive to vhd using Disk2vhd and then tried to setup VirtualBox to open it as a virtual machine.

I get the "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del" to restart. I have followed the information on this website, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonjor/archive/2011/10/04/vm-does-not-boot-following-p2v-or-disk2vhd.aspx and no luck.

alexntg

You could use VMware converter to make VMDKs of it, then bring it into VirtualBox that way.

technobabble

@alexntg said:

You could use VMware converter to make VMDKs of it, then bring it into VirtualBox that way.

VMware vCenter Converter?

alexntg

Converter standalone

technobabble

Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.

alexntg

@technobabble said:

Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.

Could you rephrase that? I'm not sure what you meant there.

technobabble

I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

alexntg

@technobabble said:

I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

That's the one!

technobabble

Thanks!

technobabble

WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."

alexntg

@technobabble said:

WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."

You need to P2V the machine while it's running.

technobabble

yeah...the Physical PC is dead.

scottalanmiller

@technobabble said:

yeah...the Physical PC is dead.

Little late for that process then

alexntg

Well, that's unfortunate! Try spinning it up in Hyper-V.

technobabble

Yes, however I thought by having the vhd I would be able to visualize it.

technobabble

core2quad Q6600 doesn't allow Hyper-V in Windows 8 (missing slat)

alexntg

Surely you must have a server somewhere you could use?

technobabble

I guess I can spin up a W7 PC and see if I can run the vhd in Virtual PC

technobabble

If I did get a server up and running, would I be able to convert the vm from one type to another and get it off the server?

alexntg

If it boots in Hyper-V, you could then P2V it to your heart's content.